no i needed to hear that .. thank you

i'd day recent COD (they are only making "ok" games in a really big frequency and selling for unfair prices, actvision is a money machine now) or The last of us. so, i have to admit that TLOU it's a great game, but it's definitely far from perfection, the story got kinda cliche in the second game

I’m an Xbox user. Xbox hates us. Don’t buy an Xbox.

I hope this helps

Not trying to sway you one way or the other but to clear up the subscriptions, I have both Game Pass PC and PS Plus Premium. And a lot of people jump to the conclusion that Game Pass has more games when it doesn't necessarily.

You can get game pass for your laptop and it's $5 less per month than the Xbox version. It's $10 per month vs $15. $120 per year on PC or $180 per year on Xbox.

The PS Plus subscription actually has the same amount or more games than Game Pass for less money depending on which tier you get. PS Plus Extra is $100 per year and gives you the same 470ish games as XBOX game pass does for $180. It also includes many of the PS exclusives that are in running for GOTY every year. However, Game Pass has access to a lot of games that are relased on Day one. They aren't usually GOTY contenders or anything but there's value there for some people.

The PS Plus Premium tier adds another 300 games for a total of $120 per year. $60 less than Xbox game pass with 300 more games. It's about 800 games for the price of 2 per year. The caveat is that many (not all) of these games are ps3 games and they can't be downloaded to your drive so they have to be streamed. For some games, it makes them unplayable (input lag) but others it seems fine.

Another thing to consider is access to next gen games (current gen, really). One thing that no one seems to mention is that Xbox Series X/S only has 3 current gen exclusives. PS5 has about 7x that amount, many of which are award-winning. With the exception of Flight Simulator, Scorn (a walking Simulator) and Gotham Knights (also available on PS5), a last generation Xbox One will play all of the same games as Series X/S. You can get a used one for $100. Of course, everything will look and play much better on the Series X but the access to the games is still there.

For me, a Game Pass PC subscription and PS Plus Premium on a PS5 is perfect. I recommend the same for you. Maybe stick with PS Plus Extra but that $20 a year for another 300 games, even if some don't shine, is a good deal. Try the game pass on your current PC and then buy a PS5.

Xbox doesn't have any exclusives. You can play everything on your PC. They aren't expected to have any real heavy hitting, current gen games until next year. The only 2 that I can think of would be Starfield which has a release window of 2023 (my guess is 4th quarter if it doesn't get delayed to 2024) and Elder Scrolls which has no release window at all.

This should give you plenty of time to save up. Ideally to buy a better PC but a used Series X for $350 - $400 shouldn't be too hard to find a year from now.

Anything Call Of Duty after 2019.

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I've had both. Ps5 if exclusives are your thing +better controller(function) and built in audio/video recording

Series x for better performance overall, better design(easier to stick places) , controller is easier to deal with in terms of charging (batteries or official battery pack and def last longer on a single charge than PS5 dual sense) and gamepass is unbeatable.

the lack of self awareness is astounding isn't it lolol

Well it's something I highly agree with. There are many organic ways to make the game easier so it doesn't make sense to add an in-menu difficulty slider.

Last of Us

Wow i didnt think it would be you but there we go

Well it would ruin the whole point of it's design.

Feels like this is the kind of question where minorities are routinely held up as an example of the majority. Sure, there are some Dark Souls fans who shit their pants if you mention an easy mode but most of the players dgaf.

Sonic

That's great news, I'm glad I could help!
Enjoy the PS5!

Yeah luckily it was just a cache issue and had to clear so thanks

The issue has been solved?

Wow thanks

It should rarely even get that high. As others have said, finish all of your downloads/transfers and see where it ends up. Then do the reset trick that someone else mentioned.

Most importantly, save all of your PS4 games to an external drive, preferably an SSD. Save the internal SSD for PS5 games. This will cut back on the "Other" storage big time and just free up your internal storage use overall. This will likely save you the expense of buying the extended internal storage, also.

No. The "Other" storage is in addition to the unseen 157.8 gbs. It varies considerably depending on how many games and/or videos you have on you drive. Mine is currently at 51, foe example.

If that still doesn't solve your problem, here's another thing you can try. Put the PS5 into rest mode, wait a minute, then pull the plug from the wall. Wait 30 seconds, then plug it in again. It'll give you an error saying it wasn't turned off correctly, but that's good. This will force it to rebuild it's database which according to a lot of comments I've seen will fix the issue.

I know this sounds strange, so here's a link to one of the comment threads I found with other people talking about this and saying it works.
https://www.reddit.com/r/playstation/comments/qkoiae/comment/hx99h3a/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

I'm not 100% sure why this works, but I am an Electronics Engineer so I can make an educated guess. Since the PS5 is using the "other" folder as temporary storage, it's running into an issue where it's not correctly clearing it's cache. This tricks the PS5 into thinking the space is still full when in reality it's empty.
When it rebuilds it's database it realizes this and corrects it.

It takes up 157.8gbs of the 825 so you have 667.2gbs to work with

The other storage normally only take up 100gb at most

It very well could be. First finish any download or installations the PS5 is doing, then power cycle the device by turning it off and turning it back on, then check the size of the other folder.

The ps5 only has an 825gb ssd and you lose some to the OS so I believe you get 650ish to work with